David LR

[BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES] Symptomatic macromastia (enlarged breasts) is a syndrome of persistent headache, neck and shoulder pain, thoracic kyphosis, painful shoulder grooving from bra straps, inframammary rash, backache, and upper extrem…

[BACKGROUND] Resident cosmetic clinics (RCCs) are the training modality of choice among both residents and faculty and are a mainstay at most residency programs. Despite this, knowledge of RCCs among plastic surgery consumers remains untest…

[OBJECTIVE] To characterize operative care for cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P) based on location (ie, from American Cleft Palate Craniofacial Association [ACPA]-approved multidisciplinary teams or from community providers). [DESIGN] Cross-s…

[BACKGROUND] Adequate resident training in aesthetic surgery has become increasingly important with rising demand. Chief resident aesthetic clinics allow hands on experience with an appropriate amount of autonomy. The purpose of this study …

[BACKGROUND] The recently increased minimum aesthetic surgery requirements set by the Plastic Surgery Residency Review Committee of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education highlight the importance of aesthetic surgery train…

[INTRODUCTION] Tissue expander and implant-based breast reconstruction after mastectomy is the most common method of breast reconstruction. Modifications of the traditional total submuscular reconstruction (TSR) have been made using acellul…

[BACKGROUND] Physicians from various specialties treat patients with nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC). The isolation of specialties from each other may result in different approaches to skin cancer training. [PURPOSE] Our purpose was to dete…

Plastic surgery continues to be a very competitive program to match into out of medical school. To analyze the match process, all applicants to our plastic surgery residency program in 2012 were surveyed. Our results showed that with matchi…

Cosmetic patients have many options when seeking out their surgeons. In midsize and larger cities, these options span not only different specialties but also different levels of experience. Because surgical experience can best be gained fir…

Matching into an integrated plastic surgery program has become highly competitive. As a result it has become more difficult for both the applicants and the residency programs to determine which attributes are most important to match in plas…

Morbid obesity in the United States has reached startling proportions, with serious physical and psychosocial ramifications. As the number of patients undergoing bariatric surgery increases to treat this problem, it is expected there will b…